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ALRC speeches

Professor David Weisbrot AM, President

• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2000-2004

 

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2008

• Privacy Launch Briefing For Your Information: Australian Privacy Law and Practice
  
  

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• ALRC Inquiry on Freedom of Information, Qld Independent FOI Review Panel & ALRC Joint Public Symposium, Brisbane (6 March 2008)
  
  
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• ALRC Review of Privacy Law and Practice, AusCERT Asia Pacific Information Security Gold Coast (20 May 2008)
  
  

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• ALRC Inquiry on Freedom of Information, Qld Independent FOI Review Panel & ALRC Joint Public Symposium, Brisbane (6 March 2008)
  
  
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2007

• Essentially Yours: Law and the Human Genome, Melbourne University JD Program, Melbourne (21 November 2007)
  
  
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• KPMG and Information Integrity Solutions Forum (23 October 2007)
  
  
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• Law Reform and Public Policy: Courts, Commisisons and the Academy (25 September 2007)
  
  
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• AAL Symposium and Launch, Government House, Brisbane (17 July 2007) opening remarks
  
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• AAL Symposium and Launch, Government House, Brisbane (17 July 2007) remarks
  
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• After dinner address, Legal Studies Association, Sydney (22 March 2007)
  

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• Remarks to UNSW Law School prize giving ceremony, Sydney (21 March 2007)
  
  
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• Free speech or ‘sedition’? Prohibitions on encouraging violence, UWS Symposium: Sedition, free speech and the war on terror, Sydney (20 March 2007)
  
  
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2006

• The Historical Necessity of Law Reform’, Alex Castles Memorial Legal History Lecture 2006, a biennial series organised and sponsored by Flinders University School of Law, Adelaide, Australia (24 August 2006)
  
  
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2005

• Privacy, Discrimination, Product Liability and the 'New Genetics', NPLA Claims Discussion Group, Sydney (23 August 2005)

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• Biobanking: Policy Transparency, Genetic Counselling and the Required Legal Infrastructure, The Biobank Legal Roundtable, Taipei (8 August 2005)

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• 30 Years of Law Reform, Panel presentation, The Promise of Law Reform: ALRC 30th Anniversary Symposium, Sydney (9 June 2005)

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• Who Owns Your Genes: Body Snatchers or Essentially Yours? Sir Ronald Wilson Lecture, Perth (9 May 2005)

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• Human Genetic Research, Intellectual Property and Emerging Public Policy in Australia Paper, HUGO 10th Annual General Meeting, Kyoto, Japan (20 April 2005)

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• The Challenges Facing Institutional Law Reform, Keynote address, Association of Law Reform Agencies for Eastern and Southern Africa (ALRAESA) Conference, Cape Town, South Africa (17 March 2005)

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• Judges and Law Reform: Judicial Creativity or Judicial Activism, Paper and panel discussion, Association of Law Reform Agencies for Eastern and Southern Africa (ALRAESA) Conference, Cape Town, South Africa (16 March 2005)

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• Keeping Secrets: The Protection of Classified and Security Sensitive Information, National Security Law Symposium, Sydney (12 March 2005)

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2000-2004

• The Challenges of Civil Justice: The Australian Experience Keynote address, International Congress of Judicial Excellence, Sao Paulo, Brazil (15-18 November 2004)

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• The Economic Impact of Civil Justice Reform Paper, International Congress of Judicial Excellence, Sao Paulo, Brazil (15-18 November 2004)

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• Law Reform and Social Change Paper, The Australian National University's 'Australian Lawyers and Social Change' Conference , Canberra (23 September 2004)

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• Stopping the Clock? The Future of the Billable Hour Paper, Launch of Volume 27, No 1 of the University Of New South Wales Law Journal, Sydney (31 August 2004)

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• Human Genetic Research Databases: Issues of Privacy and Security, OECD Workshop, Tokyo (26-27 February 2004)

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• 'The Human Genome: Lessons for Life, Love and the Law', The Kirby Oration, The 8th AIHLE Annual Conference, Hobart (20 November 2003)

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• The Protection of Human Genetic Information: Implications for Insurers, IFSA Luncheon (1 July 2003)

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• The Protection of Human Genetic Information: Research, Regulation and Genetic Privacy, NHMRC Ethics Conference (4 April 2003)

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• Launch of the National Pro Bono Resource Centre, Sydney (15 August 2002)

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• What's the Value of a Full Time Standing Law Reform Commission?, Australian Law Reform Agencies Conference, Darwin (20 June 2002)

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• Protection of Human Genetic Information, HUGO HGM 2002, Shanghai (16 April 2002)

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• What lawyers need to know … what lawyers need to be able to do: an Australian Experience, Association of Legal Writing Directors Conference: Erasing Lines - Integrating the Law School Curriculum, Minneapolis (27 July 2001)

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• Launch of the National Pro Bono Task Force report, Sydney (29 June 2001)

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• Reform of the Civil Justice System and Economic Growth: Australian Experience, Fundación IOC Conference, Madrid (19 October 2000)

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